delivering,sufficient, safe and nutritious food to all in a sustainable manner

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Political Ecology of Food
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delivering,sufficient, safe and nutritious food to all in a sustainable manner
  1. SOCIAL
    1. OVERNOURISHED
      1. Wealth = Demand
            1. Distribution Inefficiencies: global economies, trade agreements
              1. cheap food
                  1. pressure on farmers and land
                    1. high energy inputs. need to minimise labour, costs, need high return on sustainable agriculture investments
                      1. Limits to growth: Peak Oil Peak Phosphorous, peak arable land Climate Change
                    2. Meat
                      1. CAFO
                        1. redirection of grain to meat production, antibiotic usage and resistance, reduced methane, economies of scale, amplification of zoonotic disease
                        2. Extensive production- deforestation, habitat loss
                    3. Education: consumer preferences, behaviour/ exercise
                      1. Urban environments: promoting consumption, not promoting exercise
                        1. poor food/food substitutes/processed food
                          1. niche markets organic, food miles, farmers markets
                            1. Reduced economies of scale
                              1. ?
                          2. Increased global footprint for food production per capita (declining population growth in wealthy countries but rapidly increasing numbers of wealthy from transitional countries
                            1. unsustainable natural resource use
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